Life Is A Dream 

“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.” ― Jed McKenna

Leo in 2014: "Creating a Dream Life", in 2018: "Life is a Dream"

Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream. Now it makes sense

I've always heard people say "I've had an awakening" and I thought it always meant that they saw the connection between them and everything else but it LITERALLY means "starting to wake up from the dream called life"

When I was a kid, and I still do it to this day, I would focus my attention on a single object, and I would start questioning existence after a couple minutes. Like, what is this?? Why am I here? What's this stuff made of? But seriously, this is so strange. I would be so tripped out I would have to think about something else so I wouldn't go insane.

Leo just shouted at us for 45 minutes that life is a dream and then went back to bed

When this body was still young. I got this experience of suddenly waking up. And realising that everything I saw was me. And I experienced a total euphoria, it blew my mind that this is me.

This channel is really important. This is the type of thing you listen to every morning on your way to work or whatever you may be preparing for. Please don't ever stop creating content

Amazing. So true. When I began to take heavy doses of psilocybin mushrooms every trip became the same. I felt like I was having a lucid dream. I was completely sure of it. At first I got really freaked out because it meant my loving parents and all my great friends were just figments of my imagination. Not real. There was only one unified consciousness and it was me and having this crazy dream. I constructed everything. So I stopped the mushrooms altogether. Now a year or two later I fully understand this and am so at peace with it. It’s great to know and comforting and fun. This might be my last incarnation because I think I’m finally deciding to wake up, for a while at least, and who knows, maybe I’ll decide to go back to sleep. But I am loving this incarnation and plan to finish it out at the ripe old age of 120, filled with bliss and joy and love and creativity, and make it the best incarnation of all. Then I think I’ll end the dream. With a signature of love, a kiss, and an appreciation for all it’s been :)

for a moment when u said "wake up ur in a dream" i really felt like im in a dream

I clicked on this video because my mum is very sick. it makes me feel somewhat comforted hearing this. I like the eye contact and smiling.

“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.” ― Jed McKenna Wow right to the point.

Such an awesome video. I did what you said and I dreamt last night. Had a nightmare - and woke up. Tried it again, going to sleep telling myself my whole life is just a dream. Went to bed, dreamed about knowing I was in a dream and controlled everything. The second dream was a paradise, a peace universe, freedom. And now it's my turn to awaken from my life.

I’ve always thought since I was about 8 years old that I was in a dream I needed to wake up. This is 🙏 gold

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein

Forty years ago, after an upsetting psychedelic experience, i had pretty much the same assessment of reality as you describe. It seemed an inescapable shift and i had no reference point for where I was. Then I told my parents, and they took me to a psychiatrist and he drugged me into a stupor until i began to forget. Back you go into the matrix. I had summoned Mr Smith. It took another thirty years and an ayahuasca experience to remember once again. Good video content - .

I've experienced something similar. I was meditating inside a dream, and realised the dream world was a dream. And I'm guessing a similar thing can happen when you meditate in the "real" world.

*SPOILERS* I want to share something that spits into the face not only the "material paradigm", but also to search of enlightenment as a whole. Now what non-duality suggests is that we create contrast between good-bad, me and the universe(a.k.a. god) and so on. So ultimately if you manage to collapse the distinction between let's say good and bad, what would be left in the place ? Nothing, right ? because it is only one thing (god, universe, etc.). So if you collapse all the distinctions in your consciousness, what will be left ? Nothing but it self. This as a result cannot be anything, because it already is everything. In other words it can only be nothing, because only nothing can fit it all: reality, dreams, concepts, etc. So if everything is ultimately nothing, let me ask you this, what is it you are looking for ? Because enlightenment it self is just a concept within that nothing. So ultimately if you are searching for that which is described by non-duality means you are searching for nothing. And here is the catch if you are looking for nothing, there is nothing to be found. I repeat there is nothing to be seen, because there is only nothing, there is nothing to be found, because there is only nothing, and there is nothing to be explained, because nothing cannot be explained since there is nothing to explain. It gets even better. The fact that you are searching for something ether "enlightenment" or trying to achieve non-duality will prevent you from achieving it, because it implies that it is something else than it is, when there is nothing at all. So if you want to achieve ultimate understanding of reality you have to understand that there is nothing to understand, nothing to find and nothing to see and anything and everything you put in that nothing goes. You can put enlightenment, theories, concepts and so on, because "nothing" can hold it all, it has no limits, not boundaries, no judgment and even if you put it all there it is still it self, which is nothing. In other words to have everything you first have to have nothing, but if there is nothing to be had, therefore what I am trying to say that your path to ultimate freedom is realizing that there is no path, no limits, only nothing and that void you constantly are trying to fill with "self-development" or "addictions" or things like money will never be filled because there is nothing to fill. So if you want to grasp the reality stop chasing all the bs and just live your life the way you see it fit. You are nothing, I am nothing, this world is nothing, everything is nothing so put anything you want there. Good luck my friends !

I had a dream that I was in a vacation for a whole week. I felt everything like I do In “reality,” pain, fear, etc. even time moved the same. Then, in my dream, it was the next day and I was home. I asked my parents about the vacation the day before, and they said it had never happened. It felt so real, I couldn’t believe it. So real that I even considered that I was in an alternate reality or something. I told my parents this in my dream, but they just laughed at me. Then, I thought if the dream was the same as reality was there really a clear difference? I took a walk later and started telling random people my theory and dream. I wasn’t really scared anymore because I thought if this world isn’t even real, what’s there to worry about? Everything I’ve described has been a dream btw. After this, I had another dream of me waking up and writing down everything that happened. These series of dreams were all in the same night. But it seemed like it had been at least a week. Everything made too much sense.

“It's a dream, a fearful dream, life is.” ― Marcus Aurelius

So Leo is just an elaborate breadcrumb I created to lead me out of the dream 😮😮😮

Just an hour ago I had a dream that I met Leo and how he looked so calm and centered, I really felt like his being was really there (which of course I know it might not be) and he was guiding me, teaching me the path to enlightenment. So watching this video as I'm typing really makes me relate to his words. Thank you for blessing us with your amazing work, Leo!

A great movie that talked great about this is called: "Waking Life" I encourage all of you to give it a shot, it's amazing and shocking.

I just came to this realization because of situations happening. I had to search online to see if I could find something with my way of thinking. I came upon this video, I now know I'm not the only one. Wow this is great, I love dreaming!

i feel like i've always known this, like i was born knowing this, but usually live as if i've forgotten

You said "dream" 273 times, 5.6 dpm "dream per minute" :D

I think on some deep level, we all know that this is a dream, but we don't want to believe it because we don't want to leave it due to our vasanas (binding desires/habits). When we hear this truth, it's like God is finally knocking on our door and saying "ok playtime is over, time to come back home" and we're kicking and screaming like children and don't want to hear it. The first time this truth dawned on me a couple of months ago, I asked myself "Why do I want to exist?" Everything I've ever been striving for in my dream life is for ultimate happiness which can only be found in the source when I stop existing! It was everything I ever wanted but also a very disturbing and frightful realization for my ego. I'm still reeling from this and every day chipping away at my attachments to this dream. Awakening is only hard because we don't want to awaken- we want to stay attached striving for things in this dream, pretending we are getting somewhere. Like when we have a pleasurable dream at night and wake up, we try to go back to sleep so we can continue that pleasurable dream, but it's never quite the same. Once you start awakening, there's no going back. When I wake up fully, the whole world will disappear. Sri Ramana Maharishi taught me this very same thing. Alice in Wonderland scene by scene is about this exact same truth. She worried so much about fitting in- she invented all these strange characters and animals, but she could never find her place in her own dream (wonderland). Everything was life and death so this dream that consciousness always wanted is never what it's cracked out to be. Our ego had a desire for sensory existence, and this whole world came into being. But always going outward, it never got what it wanted- always seeking for the happiness it was when it never existed.

Having had sleep paralysis for 11 years, this video is hitting hard. It’s such a vivid, waking feeling that you begin to question so much. It’s both beautiful and terrifying

*Row, row, row your boat* *Gently down the stream,* *Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,* *Life is but a dream.*

I always give your videos a thumbs up before even watching it and not even once you have proved me wrong. Keep up the mind blowing work!!!

I remember when I was a little kid, I would wonder why my 'consciousness' ( but at that age I didn't know of that word or concept to describe what I was referring to, of course) had been put into a human body, and not that of a dog, a whale, a rat, etc. I wondered if it was intentionally done before I was born somehow, or if it was just by chance, and if my dogs ever wanted to trade places with me, and if they felt the same way I did. sometimes I look back and wonder if those thoughts were the first glimmers of questioning my reality peeking through, only to be buried under the passing years.

In dreams, sometimes, very rarely, you become aware that you're dreamimg. In reality, sometimes, very rarely, you become aware that life is a dream. That awareness goes away very quickly. But sometimes, very rarely, it stays with you until you die.

All his advices in just over a year has helped me to improve and change my life in all possible aspects. Starting with health and finishing with career. Powerful stuff!

i wonder if you guys would be watching this guy if he literally started his channel with this video

Holy shit man - everything I’ve read, thought, and heard over the years finally make sense! This is the one simple insight I’ve been trying to unlock. And I get it now.

this is similar to Hindu concept of the universe being a dream of the god of creation (Brahma)

Fell asleep while listening to this and dreamed about this topic. In my dream I could still make sense of what I was hearing in this video . I was walking around my house “feeling “ every object as real, feeling how I was walking . Walked past my tv and noticed it was on which seemed weird to me. My tv was playing this video which is a lie, my phone was playing this video so I wondered how I was able to “watch ” this video even though I was sleeping. Meanwhile again I could still listen and make sense of what this video was saying. Amazing , just crazy and then I woke up. I guess it all happened because I’m still dreaming

I remember dreaming a really vivid dream and was aware that i could open my eyes and i saw the dream right in front of me. It was so cool.

It's hard for me to comprehend how only 175k on this video. Because this video is so profound and is a work of art

Danke Leo! You are the biggest source of inspiration that I know of. This dream wouldn't be the same without me dreaming you up!

Wake up and smell the Leo

Thank you soo much for this! To think about dreams are is what snapped me out of a low vibration. Dreams that we have when we fall asleep is showing you that the non YOU is every possible reality out there.

I’m so glad Leo is not an evil cult leader. Cause he could do a lot of damage with some of these videos if he were. Great stuff.

I have nothing but love and admiration for you Leo. You are a true inspiration. I have been listening to you for last 4 years. A few days ago I awakened and all of that you said is TRUE. I thought I knew what you were talking about but I had no single clue about it. I was never ready to listen because I was really distracted listening to false gurus all around me. Thanks for giving me the true gift and guiding and always pointing towards it. You could have not done it for me or for anyone because I have to be it myself and so does everyone around us. In all honesty you are great teacher and you truly give. My life has changed for better after "I" was dropped from the picture. I love to share this dream with you. You are awesome x For others - If you are coachable enough and willing to actually learn then you are already on the right path. Close your eyes for now and just FOLLOW whatever he says and asks you to do. This man is a true legend. Our ego distracts us and don't let us do what he is telling us to do because its too scared to die.

💚🙏 From Syria ..." I awoke , only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep ." " While I thought that I was learning how to live , i have been learning how to die ." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

What is the benefit that we realize reality is not real? It's confused me because I need to pay my rent. After I know reality is all concept, I delay paying the rent about 10 days, and I feel agency gonna come to kill me.

I think after we die we wake up into another world and realize that our whole lives were a one whole dream

Leo 2014 “create the dream life” Leo 2018 “Life is a dream 😂😂😂

I once literally woke up out of a dream set up in bed and realized that I wasn’t in my bedroom . It was just as vivid and real as this so called physical reality. I actually woke up from a dream. Then woke up again. I was stunned and confused about what reality actually was. This happened to me 10 yrs ago.

If this is a dream who’s dream is it? Leo is saying it is your dream but he knows it is his dream. Leo believes we are dream characters of his, he is the only dreamer. So how can we awake in Leo’s dream? We are him. we can’t all be dreaming, there can only be one, so who’s is it?

I love how defensive ppl get about stuff like this. Like their ego is screaming at them not to lbelieve it or everything would change and the ego's power would be destroyed. Break down your walls people.

i had two experiences in 2 dreams where i found out that i m dreaming , and to wake my self up, i was looking to find a way to kill my self in the dream so that i wake up .... how u explain that ?

Can’t wait to watch this in the morning! Have a beautiful night everyone!

You expressed my thoughts spectacularly. Know there is only 1 dreamer, 1 mind, 1 self, everything else will have never been without me dreaming it again. P.s. stop calling me a machine.

I always go to Leo vids when I feel a need for darkness in my life. I've realized it's an important aspect to delve into from time to time. Livens up the soul a bit.

Thinking of a quote of Muhammad: "الناس نیام و اذا ماتوا انتبهوا" "people are asleep and when they die, they wake up"

I think liberation is even better word than awakening.

"I want to live my dream life" Why do I want to live my dream life when i'm already in the dream life?

After watching this video, I went to bed and had three dreams, something that hadn't happened to me in a long time. In the first dream, I dreamed that I had a conversation with my father, who had recently died. During the conversation I did not remember that he had died. I really thought I was talking to him.

Thank you Leo. I cant put into words what is happening to me right now.the only way i can put it into words is, you having awoken is ( in turn) causing me to awaken since u are me and i am you, we are literally all connected.all one. hopeful this video has the same affect for more of us so that we may truly awaken from this dream as one, as a whole!

I’ve got a huge question: I understand that “sleeping dream” and “the dream of everyday life/reality” are both just dreams. Intellectually I get it, and this video was spot on. (Space Kangaroos! Love it Leo!) However, when I am being chased by that flying bear in my “sleeping dream” when I wake up just in the nick of time to avoid being eaten, the bear is gone, along with the rest of the “sleeping dream.” That’s what happens, and that is comprehensible. However, when I wake up from my “reality dream” of everyday, I don’t understand if that means that I no longer have the life I am living?? Is my fiancé gone? My bills? My job? From the sleeping dream, I wake up to find myself in bed, unharmed / unaffected (physically mostly) from whatever it is that happened in the dream. WHERE would I find myself when I wake up from everyday life? Thanks Leo - I love your passion.

Space kangaroos

When he was telling me to wake up it blew my mind. He is me telling me wake up wake up you can wake up I’m you telling you to wake up your in a dream I felt a chill and I felt the stress the fight or flight and it was so scary at first

Leo it was such a powerful speech! I really needed to hear it from someone else. “You are me”, “it’s all happening in a dream “!

Something is subtly different about Leo. You can tell he's had a shift in consciousness recently... he's more concise and direct, less apologetic. His eyes even look like they've gotten lighter... thank you for your work Leo! Dream or not :-)

I thought leo is testing our detachment and not uploading today, because he seemed different after his enlightenment vid.

LEO: So how do we know that the state of enlightment is not a dream itself?

My life is been a nightmare lol

Today I was meditating on a Joe Dispenza meditation. And I woke up. For real. Suddenly I understood at a level beyond my mind that I am living in a dream. That I am in a dream. So clear and crisp. Actually the mind vanished after that. I realised that my perception and thoughts are not even coming from the mind. I am blown away. And I understood that as long as I don't feel and act in conflict to the dream, to the "reality", I am safe, I won't exit the dream, as long as I am allowing the dream to unfold. Actually I understand now that the dream has already been dreamt, from beginning to end. Man, this is so freeing. But also at a scary level. What can I do now? What can I manifest? How can I manipulate the matter in a wise way, without disrupting the dream? Now I can see how magnificent this dream is and its potential is not even 1% manifested yet. I don't have any power over the script of the dream, it has been dreamt already, but knowing this, what can I still achieve within it? I'm still processing everything. And then I searched for some information on this and I found your video. And the information is a perfect match to the information I awoke to. Thank you.

I only have one thing to say: WHAT A DEEP VIDEO LEO. EXCELLENT. THIS MAKES THE DIFFERENCE. THANKS

This needs to be a TEDtalk. Love the topic🙌🏽

I wonder what a blind person would think of all this. Someone born into a completely different reality, a non-visual one

Amazing video, as always. Thank you Leo ❤️

Leo you forgot to add the idea of lucid dreaming, that will really get you to realize the truth behind the materialist paradigm , lucid dreaming will bring the house of cards down and I say that because that’s what got me to understand.

Zooming out you suddenly become aware that all of this is happening on a TV screen - an epic space opera playing out for someone’s entertainment. But the actors don’t know they’re actors. To them, this galactic orgy is as real as real gets.

I think it's worth mentioning the haziness of memory too. After a week or so, it's difficult to recall events in real life, and near impossible to do so from a month or years ago to exact specificity. It's the same for remembering a dream. If it's all in your brain, why is the level of remembrance the same for conscious reality and unconscious reality?

But Leo, in lucid dreams you can ignore mechanical laws that apply in "real life", and to things that are not possible here. How come this dream doesn't change in any way once we become aware of it? Why is it that everything remains the same? I know that since we are not aware of what is happening in an outer dream, we cannot know what kind of restrictions are there relative to this dream, but isn't it more plausible that what we are experiencing now is the evolution of a dream? Just the way life on earth evolved to be conscious, so did this dream that we call reality evolve to be something "real".

awakening means dying without dying?

then tell me how’s possible that i have a dream at night and what happend in that “night dream” happens next day in “reality” .. it is actually so interconnected

Hey Leo, I was thinking of an example of how this 'real' life can affect your dreams , there's sometimes a cross over from dream state to waking state... Here it is; I've had times when sleeping that something in this waking state affected the direction of my dreams, for example if something was pressing on my neck in the night, I'd turn it into something maybe trying to kill me in my dream, another is maybe the roof has started to leak in waking state and water is dripping through the ceiling, I turn the dripping water into something else in my dream. It got me thinking that if there's a 3rd state then maybe things happen in that 3rd state and change how our lives are here in this 2nd state, in the same way that waking state happenings can affect dreaming state happenings, And that we are just experiencing things in a '2nd hand way' in this 'waking state' and confusing it for the real deal.

Missed this channel 🔥

Is it only me or do you guys also realize that you're having a night dream as soon as something happens that breaks the laws of physics? they basically turn into a "lucid dream"

I think that you need to start explicitly stating that you're not talking about suicide. Some people might get the wrong idea.

he's completely discounting total lucid dreams because it is possible to see through your sleeping dream you can become conscious and manifest any thing or situation or person in the blink of an eye in a dream literally build entire cities in seconds where there is no follow through and maybe a flying bear is chasing your plane but u can consciously make it disappear, stop, or disallow it to effect the plane if u become conscious in the dream u will see through it so that part doesn't make sense because u can get rid of any and all rules and i know he's aware of this

Leo, I need to know how do we permanently remove ourselves?? No more dreams, no different dimensions, just gone, no awareness whatsoever. My BIGGEST FEAR IS THAT THERE'S NO END TO THIS, not even in death, which would mean never truly being at rest and in peace. Is this your belief also?? Every moment of awareness is torturous to me, I just want to crawl out of my skin and turn it all off, never have awareness again. Any feedback you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

I have a very important question for you Leo, and I've waited for such a video for a long time. But first I have Something to say about the 'science' contradicting spirituality and reality and Truth. There's a difference between the scientific people and the spiritual (non-religious) people (like us). Science is based on finding out physical/biological patterns by measuring them. And the Scientific community bases the results of science as the 'TRUTH', because that's how we find out how things 'WORK'. But the 'TRUTH' is not about how things work, but how things 'ARE'. For Example the scientific community and the spiritual people want to know what consciousness is. The difference spiritual people will understand consciousness by experiencing a 'change of perception' what most people refer to as an awakening/moment of clarity/enlightenment. Science will only know where it comes from and how it works from an objective perspective. However, Consciousness is subjective and the only reality which exists within us. So now my question: I had a few moments of clarity, samadhis, the first 2 Jhanas, and Shakti rise up my spine. BUT, the most intense change of perception I had, not comparable to any of them, not comparable to alcohol, weed etc. was a psychosis called 'derealisation/depersonalisation'. I had this for a few months after my weed induced panic attack. I'm going to describe to you exactly how it felt. The experience came every evening while eating, and it always starts with a Strange sensation in the chest, and then booom. It felt like dying, and suddenly my perception changed. 1. Everything seems to be 1000 times bigger, not like hallucinations, but more like realising how giant everything is, my hand, my house, my body etc. 2. There is nothing Inside me, the 'thing in my head' has completely disappeared, and if there are people around, it seems like they also don't exist, there's no ego/soul within them. There is only the perception which exists. For example It was dark outside, and I couldn't see out the window, so Nothing existed outside, because I didn't perceive it. I knew from experience, that there is an outside world, but without perceiving it in the moment, it doesn't exists. 3. It feels like Nothing is real, like in a dream while you realise it is a dream, but 10000 times stronger because you're awake. I had this everyday for about 3 months, and when I stopped fearing it, it went away. It felt like dying every time I had the attacks which lasted for about 30 seconds to 5 minutes and during the day I felt for 3 months just a very little bit like in a dream state. I'm pretty sure an ego death is part of the experience of derealisation, because 1. it feels like dying, and 2. I don't exist in this state. That's actually the experience that led me to spirituality. And even though those experiences felt horrible, during the day, I felt so incredibly detached. I felt bliss listening to music and looking out the window. So I now view this more as an awakening rather than a psychosis, what do you think? Is this 'waking up from a dream?', a spiritual experience, ego death, or none of them?

Hey Leo, just because it's impossible to prove reality is physical, it doesn't automatically follow that it's a dream. You know what I'm saying? It's just possible, that's all. You're getting all too attached to the concept of physical world being unreal and just a dream, and I'm afraid you've stopped questioning your assumption and take it as a given. The relationship between consciousness and what we perceive as physical universe is still a deep mystery and may remain that way forever. But thank you very much anyway for your non duality videos, your perspective is still great, as it counter balances the overly materialistic view of life so prevalent today. Much love from Russia :)

I had a moment recently where I pondered something very close to what you're saying. I have had dreams lately that feel so real, and during the dream I will actually question whether or not I'm in actual reality, or dreaming. During my dream I always come to the conclusion that it's real, but then the dream ends and I wake up. Or do I?

I woke myself up from dreams by realizing that an event does not make logic. How do you explain this?

Notice how when you die in a sleeping dream u wake up. Same happens in a waking dream we call reality. When we die in reality we awake from this dream we all thought was real.

“Life is a dream, but the dream is true.” -Sadhguru

Thank you Leo! Kisses from Greece

You never mention pain. I have never once experienced acute pain in a dream. How come you never factor in physical pain when talking about reality?

Leo i understand what you mean, i promise you as I've experienced it first hand, and i still am waking up to the reality of the dream. But as you said yourself, every time you make a construct, it is wise to deconstruct as well. Your audience is not just us, people (kids per se) might discover your channel through this video and it has the potential to really mislead people. Remember saying that through language, mean mostly never conveyed the way we want it to. Our other selves will always filter what we say through their ego. We must do everything we can to minimize the potential of this misleading happening. My point is : Life is as Real as it is a Dream. I am not one of the people just here to have something to say (at least i don't think so), i am just making a point. Have a good dream ;)

Keep saying this to yourself and before you know it you'll end up like me two years ago. I lost grip with reality and almost lost it. Whatever _this_ is, you are in it, and you have to deal with it. Saying to yourself "this is a dream" won't change anything period

Is waking up from the dream/enlightenment still a dream?

Absolutely love this. Questions though: Is all this part of my dream or are we all sharing in one dream? In other words... if I see a bear in my dream I assume the bear to be a fictional character of my dream which means all this (everything I’m experiencing is fictional too). Are you and is this experience all fictional and taking me ‘home’. Or are we sharing in the same dream? If this is the case... I need to understand the connection. A different sort of dream dimension perhaps? And then where does this place ‘reality’? Perhaps all we can say about this is that it exists outside of the dream and although I’m inclined to believe we reach it after our wakeful dream... there may be another dream dimension (or many) that await us before we get there?

Thx for this awesome video! You’re a great man Leo.

I am 11 years old and I don’t think it was a good idea to watch this video because now I feel really sick and anxious. I feel like I could vomit or have panic attack

Every Leo Video feels like a TEDTalk, Amazing insight, as always.